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Estimation of survival rate and oviposition interval of Anopheles balabacensis mosquitoes from mark‐recapture experiments in Sabah, Malaysia
Author(s) -
HII JEFFREY L. K.,
BIRLEY MARTIN H.,
SANG VUN YUN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
medical and veterinary entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2915
pISSN - 0269-283X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1990.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - biology , mark and recapture , population , veterinary medicine , vector (molecular biology) , zoology , ecology , demography , medicine , biochemistry , sociology , gene , recombinant dna
. An exophilic population of the vector mosquito Anopheles balabacensis Baisas was investigated in two mark‐recapture studies (16.ix‐13.x.l986 and 6–26.i. 1987) at an inland, foothill village in Sabah, Malaysia. Wild female mosquitoes were intercepted as they came to feed on man or buffalo, given a bloodmeal, marked with fluorescent dust and released. The recapture rate was about 12%. A new method of analysis is proposed which uses cross‐correlation and a time series model. The estimated survival per oviposition cycle was 0.48‐0.54 and the oviposition cycle interval 2–3 days.